Chapter 14
A Required Change
Something, something, a bit of talking, something, something.
Shouto leaned against the wall as he retold everything to Momo, "…. And that's about it".
Momo stared at him for a moment, "We need to tell the pro's about this" she blurted out.
Shouto surprisingly chuckled at her words "You know I would agree with you normally, but I get the feeling that if we went to the pros with this and stayed out of it things would only get worse".
"But we're students there's nothing that we could probably do" Momo declared.
Shouto looked at her for a moment "We might as well hear out this Kozuki lady, otherwise even if we went to the pros they might never get all the information.
Momo sighed "Yeah I know, you said that she will only appear with the information if certain people are there, but…", she took a breath "It doesn't mean we can't take some of the other teachers with us to hear her out".
Shouto was about to make a sarcastic comment when Nezu appeared out of nowhere, "Mr Todoroki, I have an urgent message for you" he said staring up at the boy.
"Yes?" Todoroki quizzically asked.
"It would seem that your father was in a bit of an accident, and it would seem that he has requested your presence" Nezu stated.
Shouto stared at Nezu for what felt like a good minute or two until he replied, "Why does he want to see me?".
Nezu sighed "I honestly don't know, but it would also seem that a fight had broken out in a certain part of the school grounds and you father appears to have been involved in it".
Shouto stared for a bit longer "So what, he wants to see me in the nurse's office?".
"Actually he is at the new teacher's house receiving medical care" Nezu replied.
"Why is he there?" Shouto inquired.
Nezu shrugged "I was hoping to find that out myself".
Todoroki glanced at the principal and lightly shrugged, "Okay then sir, lead the way".
Nezu then glanced at Momo "Miss Yaoyorozu, you are welcome to come along too, I assume you also have questions for your new teachers".
Momo looked at him "I thought you and Shouto were only going because it was a personal matter".
Nezu smirked "But you are still a student of the school and you have every right to know how these new teachers operate in case something does disturb you".
Momo nodded "I guess so, I will come".
"Very well then, if you will both follow me, I will take you to there house, but I must warn you, how they all operate might seem a bit peculiar to the both of you" Nezu said as he started to walk off.
Shouto and Momo quickly ran up to walk alongside him, "Peculiar how sir?" Momo inquired.
Nezu grinned "Just wait and see", this answer just prompted Momo and Shouto to look at each other in confusion at what they were about to see.
(About thirty minutes later)
Shouto and Momo could only look in awe and confusion at the building that Nezu had taken them to, "Sir, this isn't what the building looked like before, is it?" Momo inquired.
"Not in the slightest" Nezu said with a slight chuckle.
And as the three of them made their way up the path way to the front door, an explosion on one of the other floors quickly jolted them.
"What was that?" Shouto said looking down at Nezu.
Nezu smirked "If that's got you concerned, I think it would be best if you two properly steel yourselves for what's inside the building.
The two teens turned to face each other with confusion and dread as the front door magically opened itself, and closed itself once all three of them had entered the building.
To Shouto and Momo's shock the ground floor of the building looked like a bombsite; there were numerous holes in the walls, numerous plants were on fire and the various pieces of furniture looked as though they had been flung around without a care.
Nezu looked up at the two of them, "Don't worry about this, although I am slightly concerned why the damage hasn't been fixed yet" he said with a hint of confusion.
Momo looked down at him "You mean that they consistently cause this kind of damage, and also constantly fix it up?".
"More or less Miss Yaoyorozu, more or less" Nezu stated.
Shouto looked at the damage for another second or two before he noticed that the elevator door was opening and out came a young child and what looked like a skeleton.
"Ahh, Mr Nezu I see you went and got Endeavour's son and what looks like a friend of his" the skeleton which Shouto then remembered from reading the forms was known as Brook said.
Nezu glanced up at the skeleton "Yes I have, would you two mind accompanying us to wherever Endeavour is currently being held".
Momonosuke nodded (glancing at Momo with a grin) "Sure, no problem".
The five of them went into the elevator and Brook pressed a one of the the many buttons that were on the panel, "How many floors does this building have, if you don't mind me asking" Momo asked looking up at the very tall skeleton.
Brook looked down at here "There appears to be around twenty or more, but we haven't really figured it out yet, because there weren't as many floors as when we first were in the elevator yesterday", he glanced down at her for a bit longer and just as he was bout to say something Nezu looked up at him and the skeleton quickly turned his head to stare straight at the doors of the elevator.
The elevator dinged and the five of them exited onto what was the eighth floor and also a completely stocked hospital, "Wow, that's impressive" Shouto quietly said.
And then Shouto turned to see something he never thought he would see in his lifetime, his father was unconscious, on a bed, with bandages covering half of his body, "Dad…?".
Endeavour quickly awoke, "Shouto, hello" he said as he turned his head to face his son.
Shouto just stared at his father "What happened?".
And to Shouto's complete concern his father laughed, "Heh heh, it would seem that I was beaten by these people's captain" he said as he motioned to Brook and Momonosuke with his unbandaged hand.
"And you don't care?!" Shouto yelled.
"It's not exactly that…" Endeavour started to say, "It's more so that I learnt a lesson, and I realised I have to learn somethings about life".
Shouto could only stare at his father as Nezu jumped up on the seat beside them and started to talk to Endeavour, "So I'm guessing we shouldn't really tell the world that Japan's No.1 Hero was beaten by a nineteen year old from a place nobody would understand".
Endeavour scoffed "It would seem that is the only option, unless you want to invoke mass hysteria and fear".
"Then what could we say happened?" Nezu inquired looking at the injured pro hero.
"Nothing" a familiar voice said, and they all turned to see Chopper writing some things at his desk.
"Nothing?" everybody in the room bar Brook and Chopper asked.
Chopper swivelled his chair around to face everybody, "Besides the hair, I have managed to heal all of Endeavour's injuries, I just need him to stay for a day or two so I can make sure that his hair follicles haven't been completely incinerated".
Endeavour then looked at the Reindeer, "But I was incredibly burnt, I'm honestly surprised I'm still alive".
Chopper's arms were starting to flail in thinking he had been given a compliment and then he stopped, "It's not a problem at all, I've honestly dealt with worse injuries from travelling with this crew, but there is a chance the hair that got burnt off might not grow back though" he said with a slight bit of annoyance.
Nezu looked at Chopper and then to Endeavour and then back at Chopper "If that's all he's got to be worried about, I'm sure he will be fine".
Endeavour scoffed again, "So I might just need to shave my head or something" he then glanced to Nezu, "I mean it would probably be weird for my image if I only grew the hair on one side of my body".
Nezu then laughed "I think that might be a necessity".
"Why don't you care that you got beaten!" Shouto interjected.
"It doesn't matter Shouto, I was pretty mad when I woke up and thought about the consequences that would become apparent from that fight and then I started to get angry and tried to fight these people on the ground floor and I'm pretty sure I did more damage to the room then to them and from that I realised a lot of things I need to question about myself" Endeavour explained.
Shouto could only stare at how his father was acting in disbelief, and Nezu then interjected "So does he need to keep the bandages on or anything?".
Chopper shrugged, shifted to Heavy Point, walked over and efficiently started to remove Endeavour's bandages and true to his word there was no apparent damage besides the aforementioned lacking of hair, "Wow" was all that Momo could say as she watched the skill of the reindeer.
Endeavour's other eye opened as the bandages were taken off, "Your skill is pretty impressive young man, you were able to heal all of my injuries without a quirk or anything" he said as he looked over where his previous injuries were.
"That doesn't make me happy, no it doesn't, hahahaha!" Chopper shouted as he danced a little bit, and then stopped "But I have to ask that you stay for another day at the least, for a look over".
Endeavour looked at the reindeer "Very well", he then turned to his son as he got out of the bed "Shouto are you okay?".
Shouto looked at his father and then down at the ground, "I'm fine, just asking myself a few questions".
"Very well, if you need to talk I am here" Endeavour stated which caused Shouto to shudder.
Chopper then looked at the rest of them, "Well if you don't need anything else from me, I would suggest you go down to the lounge room, everybody else is there", he looked to Endeavour "And come back if you feel any pain or sickness, it is my job to look after people".
Endeavour nodded and he turned to walk to the elevator and within a moment everybody else but Chopper joined him in the elevator, Nezu then spoke up "I still want to have a talk with you" he said looking up at Endeavour, "And Luffy, because I can still not comprehend how the both of you ended up in a fight where you were completely taken on by the young man".
Endeavour looked down at him, "His strength is impressive, and while recovering I've had the time to think some things over…" he said as his mind started to wander.
Momo turned to Shouto with a worried expression "What's wrong, wouldn't you be glad your dad's okay?".
Shouto looked at her in complete confusion "I just have never heard him talk in such a manner before".
"So do you need to talk about it?" she asked as the elevator reached the designated floor.
"No" Shouto shook his head, "I just need to think some things over, that's all".
Momo looked at her friend in concern but seeing his expression relaxing she nodded in understanding, "No problem".
The elevator door opened and almost immediately everybody in it regretted ever deciding to come to the floor they were currently on; Luffy was tied up against the wall, Zoro was sleeping against the wall next to him, Jimbei and Pedro were sitting on the semi-sliced couch playing chess, Robin was reading a book on a hammock that was being held up by one of her hands, Nami was banging her clima-tact on Sanji's head for something he had done, Pekoms had gotten his hand stuck in a hole trying to get something and Carrot was eating some carrots next to him watching him try to free himself without any help.
Nezu was the first to walk out of the elevator and almost everybody stopped what they were doing to see who the visitors were and upon seeing Nezu they all quickly cleaned up and sat down at various spots on the partially cut up couch (Luffy was still tied up, Zoro was still asleep and Pekoms was still stuck).
"It would seem you guys have been pretty out there on your first day of teaching" Nezu said as he eyed those who were sitting on the couch.
And then everybody turned to look at Luffy, "He did it, not us" they all said in unison.
Nezu smirked "You don't even know what I'm for, but you immediately point fingers at a specific person".
Everybody shrugged and Sanji spoke "Well it's either because the idiot took out the strongest hero in this country and could've caused a catastrophe or it's the fact that he basically made all of the students he was meant to teach fight against his will so we could get an idea of where the students are in terms of strength".
Both Momo and Shouto looked at each other and then back at the colourful group of individuals that were sitting on the couch.
Luffy then started to squirm "It was a fight who cares, why do I have to be tied up".
"BECAUSE, YOU'RE JUST GOING TO FIGHT HIM AGAIN AND WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR THAT, YOU IDIOT!" Nearly everybody said as they turned to Luffy.
Luffy pouted "It's not fair".
Nezu then looked at the boy "Very well", and he went and untied Luffy to everybody's shock.
"Don't let him go" Nami shouted but to no avail because as soon as Nezu untied Luffy he bolted straight for Endeavour.
"Can't believe you guys fell for…" and Luffy was immediately frozen up to his waist.
"Monkey D. Luffy, I am sorry but I am in quite a rush so I need to speed thing along" Shouto said ominously.
"Shouto?" Both Endeavour and Momo said as they turned to see him with blank pupils.
'Shouto' then walked over to Luffy and using his flames freed him and then picked him up and put him on the couch, "I honestly do I apologise for this, but I don't have the time anymore".
Everybody else looked at how 'Shouto' had just handled Luffy in shock, "What was that?" a semi-awake Zoro asked.
"Hello Mr Roronoa, I am Kozuki Toki and as you have already guessed something is coming and we need to be prepared for it" 'Shouto' said eyeing Zoro.
Zoro looked at 'Shouto' for a brief moment and shrugged, "What is it you want to say?".
Nezu then quickly ran up "And I still have questions of my own?".
"I am sorry but that will have to come later, for now I need you to bring me all of the students that withstood the Conqueror's attack it is a matter of great importance" 'Shouto' said as he looked down at Nezu.
Nezu was about to retort before Momonosuke spoke up, "Kozuki Toki…, Mum…" he said staring at 'Shouto'.
'Shouto' looked at Momonosuke "Hello my son, I have missed you so much" 'he' then walked over and hugged Momonosuke.
Everybody just stared at the display they had seen with shock and confusion, "WHAT IS GOING ON!" nearly all of them shouted.
The elevator door opened and Chopper exited it, "Hey guys, have you seen…" he started to say as he saw that one of the students was holding Momonosuke in a tight hug, "WHAT!".
'Shouto' stopped hugging Momonosuke and stood up and motioned for Chopper to sit on the couch with everybody else, "Please just sit, and I will explain".
Chopper didn't even speak he just ran past them and hopped onto the couch between Sanji and Carrot.
'Shouto' then motioned for everybody else to sit on the couch which they did almost automatically.
'He' then begun to talk "Since some of the people I still need to talk to aren't here, I'm afraid I can only give you all a brief explanation for now, or" he turned to Nezu, "How long do you think it will take to get all of the students that were on the list to come here?".
Nezu looked at 'him' "Not long, probably, I will just have to make a quick call and get their homeroom teachers to bring them here".
'Shouto' nodded "Well then, if you please", 'he' motioned making a call.
Which Nezu quickly did, Ring, Ring, Ring, "Hello" Aizawa said.
"Hello Aizawa, I have a quick favour to ask of you" Nezu stated.
"And that would be?" Aizawa questioned.
"Can you please go and get Vlad King and can you both please bring the students who were on the form please" Nezu asked.
"You mean the form of the students who resisted that attack from that kid?" Aizawa inquired.
"Yes please" Nezu asked.
"Very well, Give me a moment and we will be right over" Aizawa said.
The phone then hung up and Nezu put it in his pocket, "That's done", "Was there anything else?" he asked 'Shouto'.
"That is all, thank you, now if you will excuse me, would I be able to go and have a private conversation with my son" 'Shouto' asked.
Endeavour looked at 'him' in apprehension and as did aa lot of the people in the room, but then Luffy spoke up "No problem".
'Shouto' nodded as 'he' suddenly fell to the ground.
Everybody then saw what looked like a ghost leave Shouto's body and head directly to Momonosuke and although some of them tried to touch it, none of them actually impeded its movement.
The ghostly figure then reached Momonosuke (who had somehow positioned quickly run over to the couch and positioned himself between Nami and Robin) and within a moment the young boy passed out.
"I don't think we should be concerned about that" Nezu said as he walked over and sat at one of the lounges present throughout the room.
Endeavour then looked at him in slight frustration, "You don't think so huh, what about my son, he just passed out or should I not be worried about that either!".
Nezu quickly shook his head "I don't think that…", and almost immediately Shouto stood back up, and Nezu looked back at Endeavour "See".
Endeavour then walked over to Shouto "Are you alright?".
Shouto looked up at him and cautiously shook his head, "Yeah, but what happened, I just blacked out".
Momo then walked up alongside him, "If you're fine, then it doesn't matter" she said as hugged her friend.
Everybody just looked at them in glee, ("Well at least the kid is okay") they all thought.
They all turned to look at the slightly shaking form of Momonosuke, "I wonder what he's talking to his mum about" Nami questioned.
Nezu, Shouto, Brook and Momo then went and sat on the couch waiting for when the others arrived, "I hope that we aren't in too much danger" Momo thought out loud.
Luffy just laughed "Shishishi, that just mean it's gonna be more fun!".
Everybody turned to look at Luffy with paled expressions, "Shut up you idiot, you're going to scare the kids" Nami said as she hit Luffy on the head.
Nezu could only stare at how everybody was acting and allowed himself a compassionate thought ("I hope that the students will be alright, there's no telling what fate has in store for any of us").
Oh Nezu, Nezu, Nezu, you have no idea what fate has got planned and trust me it's not exactly gonna be happy fun times for much longer, crap's gonna go down.
Well there's another chapter down, the next one will have everything explained (well at least to a certain extent).
I think that's it, I mean what else are you meant to write in these author notes. Probably something else about constructive criticism welcomed and pointing out errors.
Well, anyway,
Peace Out!